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12 EFFECTIVE WAYS TO HELP YOUR ADD/ADHD CHILD £12.99

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12 EFFECTIVE WAYS TO HELP YOUR ADD/ADHD CHILD
Drug-free Alternatives for Attention-deficit Disorders
Laura Stevens

This invaluable book has many excellent features such as practical questionnaires, specific help for each child, recipes for ADHD children and much more. I found the real-life experiences to be of great value. It is very reader-friendly requiring little or no previous knowledge of ADHD. The book takes you through treatment of ADHD children by identifying what changes you can make in your child's diet in order to benefit then the most. It also helps you to plan visits to your Doctor and how to state your case effectively. Thank you to the author - Laura Stevens for providing a light at the end of the tunnel!!
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ISBN: 9781583330395
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365 WAYS TO CONNECT WITH YOUR KIDS £12.99
365 WAYS TO CONNECT WITH YOUR KIDS

Charlene Baumbich

365 Ways to Connect With Your Kids was written to help parents let go of their fears and believe in the warmth and wisdom they have to bestow on their children...be open to the spontaneity, enthusiasm and lessons their children have to share.

Through a series of mini stories about connectedness in action-as well as a few examples of what being disconnected looks like-365 Ways to Connect with Your Kids will help you connect with your children in a hands-on, positive, fun, thought-provoking, warm and rewarding way for both of you. No matter what the age of your child or yourself, it is never too late to try something new or re-nourish something old and meaningful.
365 Ways to Connect With Your Kids will help you not only enjoy the ride, but also wallow in the blessings as well as the trials and challenges along the way.
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ISBN: 9781564144805
ISBN 10: 1564144801
AD/HD BOOK £10.99
AD/HD BOOK
Answers to Parents Most Pressing Questions
Beth Ann Hill & James Van Haren

Many experts say that conservatively well over six million children have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. With the mounting pressure placed on parents to pursue a diagnosis and medicate hyperactive children the urgency of life-changing decisions can weigh heavily on the whole family. Conflicting advice bombards parents from all sides - often leaving families more confused and anxious than before. THE AD/HD BOOK seeks to quell fears and rationally addresses nearly one hundred common questions and concerns to help parents make sense of the information chaos. Beth Ann Hill herself a mother and teacher of AD/HD children clearly explains the basics of AD/HD and lays out its complexities. She logically takes parents through symptoms diagnoses and tests medication a treatment strategy designed to combine medical treatment and special parenting techniques to break through problem behaviours.
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ISBN: 9781583332337
ISBN 10: 1583332332
ADHD £16.99
ADHD
Whos Failing Who
Brenton Prosser

We should not only be asking how our kids with ADHD are failing society but also how society is failing these kids.' So writes Dr Brenton Prosser author of this significant new book on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. ADHD: WHO'S FAILING WHO? aims to help parents teachers educational advisers and health professionals make informed decisions about how they can support children with ADHD. Dr Brenton Prosser a research fellow in education investigates the recent boom in ADHD diagnosis and the rise in drug treatments and ponders how an obscure medical diagnosis has become a well-known popular phenomenon.He proposes that if we ask only medical questions about ADHD we will get only medical answers - and more drug treatment. Dr Prosser therefore examines the educational and social dimensions of ADHD as well. In this way the book offers a compassionate balanced and holistic approach to understanding the disorder and helps us comprehend the impact of ADHD on our young people our schools and society. This ground-breaking book provides a new view of ADHD as well as a wealth of advice and practical ideas. It includes: o an examination of myths and facts about ADHD o first-hand comments from teenagers with ADHD about their experiences at school o practical advice for parents o a valuable section outlining 100 handy hints for teachers.
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ISBN: 9781876451714
ISBN 10: 1876451718
ADOLESCENCE & OTHER TEMPORARY MENTAL DISORDERS DVD £29.98

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ADOLESCENCE & OTHER TEMPORARY MENTAL DISORDERS DVD
Why 'Crazy' Teen Behaviour Is More Normal than You Think and How You Can Deal with It Without Losing Your Mind!
Dr. Patrick C. Friman

Are you baffled by teenagers' behaviour? Even generally well-behaved teenagers can do things that anger, puzzle or frighten us. So we ask them, “Why did you do that? What were you thinking?” Most adults might be surprised to learn that a teenager's honest answers to those questions would be: “Because I felt like it” and “I wasn't thinking.”

On this DVD, Dr. Pat Friman shows his audience and viewers how the teenage brain affects teenagers' behaviour. With plenty of thought provoking, as well as laugh-out-loud examples, he explains how “insane” behaviour on the part of teenagers is actually normal considering the different rates of development of parts of the brain. Because the prefrontal cortex, which guides reason and logic, is still developing in adolescents, it is often overruled by the limbic system, the part of the brain that reacts with emotion. Wild outbursts, risk-taking (drugs, alcohol and sex) and thoughtless or embarrassing behaviour are therefore regrettable, but not abnormal behaviour in teenagers. Dr. Friman discusses eight types of “temporary adolescent insanity” including “rationality in abstentia disorder,” “woeismenia,” “truth relativitis,” “situational mutism” and “sexmania.” “Sensory interruptitis,” for example, is a teen'agers inability to hear any parental command issued in a normal tone of voice or to see clothes on the floor, unmade beds and dirty dishes. Dr. Friman then tells viewers which behaviour to address and how and which behaviors should simply be ignored as teen “insanity” that will be outgrown as youth matures. His ten tips can keep adults sane when dealing with adolescents.
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ISBN: 9781934490129
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AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT £12.99
AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT
A Parents Story of Love Loss and Hope
Leonard Fein

The sudden death of a child. A personal tragedy beyond description. The permanent presence of an absence. What can come from it? Raw wisdom and defiant hope. Leonard Fein probes life's painful injustices in this remarkable personal story. He exposes emotional truths that are revealed when we're forced to confront one of the toughest questions there is. How can we pick up the pieces of our lives and go on to laugh and to love in the aftermath of grievous loss? Ruthlessly honest lyrical and wise AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT takes the experience of loss beyond the confines of the personal illuminating the universal meaning and the hope that can be found in the details of grief. Leonard Fein is a passionate and gifted writer teacher and veteran social activist. He is author of Where Are We? The Inner Life of America's Jews a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and Israel: Politics and People. He served as director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism and is the founder of Moment magazine Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger and the National Jewish Coalition for Literacy.
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ISBN: 9781580231978
ISBN 10: 1580231977
ANGRY KIDS, FRUSTRATED PARENTS £11.99

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ANGRY KIDS, FRUSTRATED PARENTS
Practical Ways to Prevent Aggression in Your Children
Terry L Hyland and Jerry Davis

A straightforward, intelligent guide for parents confused about their child's tantrums, teasing, whining, and acting out.

"This book has two goals: 1) to help parents recognize aggressive behavior in their children and act before it becomes a problem, and 2) to show parents how they can teach their children to stop using negative aggressive behaviors and learn new positive behaviors"
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ISBN: 9781889322285
ISBN 10: 1889322288
ANOTHER PLACE AT THE TABLE £9.99
ANOTHER PLACE AT THE TABLE

Kathy Harrison

For more than a decade Kathy Harrison has sheltered a shifting cast of troubled youngsters: the offspring of prostitutes and addicts; the sons and daughters of abusers; and teenage parents who aren't equipped for parenthood. All this in addition to raising her three biological sons and two adopted daughters. What would motivate someone to give herself over to constant largely uncompensated chaos? For Harrison the answer is easy. ANOTHER PLACE AT THE TABLE is the story of life at social services' front lines centred on three children who when they come together in Harrison's home nearly destroy it. It is the frank first-person story of a woman whose compassionate best intentions for a child are sometimes all that stand between violence and redemption. This page-turning portrait of an extraordinary family has won Kathy Harrison wide acclaim.
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ISBN: 9781585422821
ISBN 10: 1585422827
APPLE-A-DAY £13.99
APPLE-A-DAY
Nutritional Reference and Cookbook for Childrens Health and Wellbeing
Dorothy Edgelow

The author Dorothy Edgelow has devoted much of her life to the pursuit of using food to prevent illness and regain health to balance weight and to live without allergic reactions. One result of this has been the writing of the Gawler Foundation's Cookbook 'A Recipe for Life'. APPLE-A-DAY is one part of the newly formed Children's Whole Health Foundation the philosophy of which is to inspire and inform parents and carers to seek the most appropriate decisions and choices when considering the emotional and physical health of their children. APPLE-A-DAY offers information on a wide range of subjects including the nutritional needs of the 12 body systems food nutrients and analysis chemical additives to avoid basic foods for small children suggested strategies from medical professionals for dealing with traumas and some proven natural therapies that are particularly useful for children. The recipe section has over 200 family friendly dishes most of which can be used by those with allergies to wheat dairy and egg.
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ISBN: 9780855723668
ISBN 10: 0855723661
ART OF CONSCIOUS PARENTING £14.99
ART OF CONSCIOUS PARENTING
The Natural Way to Give Birth, Bond with, and Raise Healthy Children
Jeffrey L. Fine with Dalit Fine Foreword by Joseph Chilton Pearce

Our first days and months of life are critical in forming the attitudes we bring into adulthood and in structuring the very roots of our personality. Simple bonding techniques are at the core of a new model of conscious parenting that can produce happy and well-adjusted children. These practices, also, help parents experience an increased joy and intimacy both with their child and with each other. Based on obstetric and psychological evidence, Jeffrey and Dalit Fine reveal how bonding begins in the womb and that the physical and mental preparation of both the father and mother, even before conception, sets the tone for the future well-being of the child. They show how sustained physical contact and simple ways of consciously interacting with your infant - eye contact with the newborn, baby-carrying instead of pushchair use and sleeping together - have an observable positive effect. They, also, show that the “green parenting” practices of breast-feeding, contact with nature and simple low-tech creative play, not only provide a more hands-on and intimate approach to parenting, but, also, are more economical and environmentally sustainable. From in-utero bonding through the challenges and joys of consciously interacting with your growing child, this book will help parents rediscover and apply the natural art of conscious parenting. · Explains the importance of bonding with your child in the womb and the physical and mental preparation needed even before conception · Shows how “green parenting” - breast-feeding, contact with nature and low-tech creativity - can enhance your child's life
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ISBN: 9781594773228
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BABY GIRLS £11.99
BABY GIRLS
An Owners Manual
Theresa Foy DiGeronimo

An expert dose of good common sense for parents embarking on the exciting exhausting enriching and endless fun of raising a baby girl. Complete with practical advice suggestions checklists and more it covers: - Selecting a daughter's doctor - Girls' hygiene and common health questions - Social cognitive and emotional development - Great toys for girls and other tools for fun and learning - Shepherding a daughter's developing sense of identity.
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ISBN: 9780399532115
ISBN 10: 0399532110
BABY ON BOARD £19.99

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BABY ON BOARD
Understanding your Baby's Needs in the First Twelve Months
Dr Howard Chilton

The primary focus of BABY ON BOARD is on ways you can care for your baby during the most vital time in a child's development – the first few months. In this second edition of his successful book, leading baby expert, Dr Howard Chilton, presents the latest international medical information on the fundamentals of baby-care. He offers clear advice on how to care for a young baby in the first weeks, the early months and beyond. One issue that causes parents the most anguish – how to settle their distressed and crying baby – is explored in detail. Written in an accessible and frequently humorous way, Dr Chilton explains the fundamentals of parenting based on science and his thirty years' experience as a neonatologist. He, also, explores the fascinating subject of how babies evolved over the millennia, what they perceive and how they are programmed for survival. Packed with practical advice, BABY ON BOARD is a must-read for all expectant mums and dads.
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ISBN: 9781876451905
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BEST SCHOOL FOR YOUR CHILD £18.99

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BEST SCHOOL FOR YOUR CHILD
Selecting a Secondary School that Matches your Child’s Needs
Erin Shale

THE BEST SCHOOL FOR YOUR CHILD is a practical, accessible book that guides parents in assessing and identifying a school that will meet the unique needs, qualities and strengths of their child. Erin Shale helps parents view the school through the eyes of their child and understand the attributes that will help them thrive in the teenage years. Combining practical strategies and common sense advice with numerous real-life stories from parents, children and teachers, THE BEST SCHOOL FOR YOUR CHILD shows parents how to evaluate the climate, culture, reputation, programmes, policies and curricula of different schools.

• Erin Shale helps parents identify the information they need and the
questions to ask.
• The book includes numerous accounts from parents, principals,
teachers, counsellors and teenagers.
• The author considers how all aspects of a school may affect
children's ability to do well – academically, emotionally and morally.
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ISBN: 9781876451844
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BEYOND THE ICARUS FACTOR £9.99
BEYOND THE ICARUS FACTOR
Releasing the Free Spirit of Boys
Richard Hawley

Richard Hawley's many years as headmaster of a boys' school have convinced him that boys do indeed have a unique, intrinsic and inalienable free-spirit nature. He sees deep flaws in the way we - as parents, educators and community members - alter or suppress that true nature in order to turn boys into men that fit our societal template. Hawley argues that the “model man” in our society, while seemingly successful in his role, may yet be unhappy in his life. The very elements that we strip away from a boy's natural tendencies are the sources of spirituality and vitality that can give his life both meaning and satisfaction. Without these, he is lost to his essential nature. A new approach is needed, says Hawley, and he goes to the roots of Western theology and philosophy to locate what has gone wrong and how those consequences might be addressed. He sounds the clarion call to unleash, promote and celebrate the seemingly dangerous pursuits that reflect the creativity and daring nature of boys. Fantasy and imagination must trump cognition and problem solving. We must not hold our boys back with our fears of failure but give them the tools and support they need to create wings good enough to fly wherever they wish to go. · Argues that boys have a unique free-spirit nature and that efforts to alter or suppress it lead to profound unhappiness, pathology or startling compulsions · Demands another approach to societal expectations, one that values and promotes the daring creativity of boys
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ISBN: 9781594772283
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BIBLE BABY NAMES £8.99

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BIBLE BABY NAMES
Spiritual Choices From Judeo-Christian Tradition
Anita Diamant

BIBLE BABY NAMES is for all those who want their child's name to be special spiritual and full of meaning - it offers a treasure-trove of choices. As well as giving an overview of the trends in baby names this book explains why the Bible has been a rich source of names through the ages and helps you make modern choices from the ancient text. Contains nearly 1000 boys' and girls' names both traditional and creative from the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible each with a; ¨ Translation from the original language. ¨ Citation of where the name appears in the Bible. ¨ Description of its meaning. A complete one-of-a-kind resource for parents-to-be searching for a perfect name for their child.
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ISBN: 9781879045620
ISBN 10: 1879045621
BIRTH SPACE, SAFE PLACE (previously announced as Positive Pain) £7.99
BIRTH SPACE, SAFE PLACE (previously announced as Positive Pain)
Emotional Well-Being Through Pregnancy and Birth
Adela Stockton

POSITIVE PAIN is intended as a companion to the reader's emotional journey through pregnancy, birth and early parenting days. It focuses on the wide spectrum of feelings that may arise for the reader as their baby grows within, as they and their partner face the choices that form an essential part of the journey to parenthood and as they adjust to their new role as a mother. Ways of laying fears to rest, keeping birth gentle and protecting their baby-moon are included, with useful homeopathic remedies and further resources suggested throughout. The words and imagery in this book embrace the spiritual journey of birth, reminding the reader that a momentous occasion is indeed taking place as they bring new life into the world. Stockton's approach places the mother's emotional and spiritual needs before her physical requirements, proposing that the experience of childbirth has the capacity to nourish rather than deplete the soul. It encourages the woman to take responsibility for her own birthing process and to surrender to her own instinctive powers rather than those of medical intervention. It is also the first book written by a British author to specifically highlight and detail the role of the UK Doula and her place within the UK maternity care arena. It illustrates, in an accessible way, how homeopathy is compatible with the subtle vibration of childbirth, alongside the simple use of remedies during pregnancy, labour and early parenting.
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ISBN: 9781844091652
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BIRTH WITHOUT VIOLENCE £12.99
BIRTH WITHOUT VIOLENCE



A revised edition of the classic that changed the way children are met when they enter our world - The original book that challenged society's beliefs about awareness in the newborn - Shows how gentle lighting, a quiet atmosphere, and a warm bath allow a newborn to ease the transition from womb to world without trauma or fear - Includes a new preface by the author, the founder of the gentle birth movement Birth without Violence is the first book to express what mothers have always known: babies are born complete human beings with the ability to experience a full range of emotions. First published in 1974, it revolutionized the way we perceive the process of birth, urging us to consider the birth from the infant's point of view. Why must a child emerge from the quiet darkness of the womb into a blaze of blinding light and loud voices? Why must an infant take its first breath in terror, hanging upside down as its vulnerable spine is jerked straight? Why must the infant be separated from its mother after spending nine months inside her nourishing body? Examining alternatives to technocentric approaches to childbirth, this new edition of the classic text, complete with a new author preface, shows us how we can ease the transition from womb to world without trauma or fear. Birth without Violence illustrates how to create an environment of tranquillity in which to welcome our children: a relaxed mother, gentle lighting, soothing atmosphere, and a warm bath that mirrors the child's prenatal surroundings. Dr. Leboyer's simple techniques demonstrate how a birth without violence has far-reaching implications for improving the quality of human life physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
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ISBN: 9781594772979
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BOUNDARIES £7.99

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BOUNDARIES
A guide For Teens
Boys Town Press

This book invites young people to examine their lives and relationships. It begins by helping teens define what physical emotional and sexual boundaries are. Stories illustrate how personal space and feelings can be either respected or violated. The book's spiral-bound journal format encourages teens to reflect on and record feelings about their own relationships by asking questions such as Do people respect your boundaries? Has anyone ever made you feel uncomfortable in some way? Have you ever felt manipulated intimidated or mistreated by someone you regard as a friend? How can you get a friendship that has gone wrong back on track? What are the characteristics of a good friend? Using BOUNDARIES: A GUIDE FOR TEENS will help teenagers assess their relationships with family friends classmates and new acquaintances. It will teach them how to build close and satisfying friendships while guarding against being used or abused by others. BOUNDARIES: A GUIDE FOR TEENS offers valuable lessons on how to protect the mind and body.
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ISBN: 9781889322377
ISBN 10: 1889322377
BOYS WILL BE BOYS £18.99
BOYS WILL BE BOYS
Breaking The Link Between Masculinity and Violence
Myriam Miedzian

Violence has always been the way of human life and most acts of violence are committed by men. But what causes them to embrace violence - in warfare in criminal acts in the home? Is it encouraged by parents or is it innate? How can we begin to raise sons whose sense of self-worth will not be dependent on an atavistic concept of masculinity and what concrete changes must we make in our child-rearing and socialization process in order to raise sons who embrace the positive masculine characteristics of initiative independence and courage? This book addresses these questions and comes up with answers.
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ISBN: 9781590560358
ISBN 10: 1590560353
BRIGHT FROM THE START £13.99

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BRIGHT FROM THE START
The Simple, Science-Backed Way to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind from Birth to Age 3
Jill Stamm

Should you really read to your baby? Can teaching a baby sign language boost IQ? Should you pipe classical music into the nursery?

Dr. Stamm translates the latest neuroscience findings into clear explanations and practical suggestions, demonstrating the importance of the simple ways you interact with your child every day. It isn't the right “edu-tainment” that nurtures an infant's brain. It is as simple as Attention, Bonding and Communication and it's within every parent's ability to provide. Practical games and tips for each developmental age group will show you not only what the latest findings are but, more importantly, tell you what to do with them.
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ISBN: 9781592403622
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